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Hello new followers! Quick intro: currently working in (mostly) general science education, but prior to that focused more on fire, ecosystems & earth observation (all of which I remain interested in). Also into sustainability, especially of transport, which inevitably leads to broader questions...

Also massive shoutout to the Footscray legends who were backfilling every hole Jemena dug with concrete every time they turned their backs. Part civil disobedience, part cartoon slapstick. Beautiful stuff

Australia’s eucalypts are famously resilient, but climate change is testing their limits. theconversation.com/while-some-e... #Eucalypts #ClimateChange #Bushfires @westernsydneyu.bsky.social @rachaelnolan.bsky.social #HawkesburyInstitute

(New from me) Victoria has the lowest power prices the NEM - if not the world (according to Rystad) so why isn’t state Labor talking about energy as the election looms. reneweconomy.com.au/for-a-party-...

Nup to the Cup group labels Victoria the deadliest state for racehorses

"If Wilson is genuinely concerned with fighting antisemitism, she should explain why her party has not ruled out doing preference deals with One Nation, which has run holocaust deniers for Parliament and has extensive links to neo-nazis and white supremacists.” 💥🎯👏👏👏 #springst #auspol

Transport department of Queensland put up a road rules quiz today, asking whether it was legal to cross double solid lines to overtake a bicycle rider on a road with a speed limit of 70kph. The comments went immediately to violence. And there is no moderation. Glad we're crushing ebikes for safety.

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.

Frequent cannabis use linked to higher odds of nighttime breathing problems

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

Feed recommendations are the most common way teens encounter self-harm content

Serbia’s student-led movement has delivered a historic election upset, ending 14 years of rule by Aleksandar Vučić’s party. Millions celebrated across Serbia and Europe.

Electrification of South Coast line to be extended to Bomaderry! www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...

PHON & LNP will dutifully complete the work of the fossil fuel sponsored #AtlasNetwork think-tanks that spunoff Advance to kill the Voice referendum, then offshore windfarms, and now the entire Vic govts clean energy rollout & VNI-West project. All of this racism is to secure fossil fuel profits..

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Trump is pushing a Russian agent for the next secretary general of the UN.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

if you hated “dynamic pricing” before, get a load of…

Neuroscientists are digging into a worrying link between polluted air and children’s brain wiring

Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-ignor...

🌧️It's one of those days when you see the effectiveness of the shelter at your station or stop... and the benefits of a short wait.

Well, that’s OK then

The Australian newspaper has been claiming a "forensic audit report" shows BoM's temperature data has "widespread error". For 15 years climate sceptics have been claiming a conspiracy around the data. Is anything different this time?

Shame we demolished it for a quick buck.

Musk said he restricted Starlink in Ukraine- causing fast moving drones to lose connectivity - and that he had every right to do so because of some terms of service or contract that he didn't show us. (He didn't address suddenly doing this with no warning to Kyiv.) www.cnbc.com/2026/10/24/u...

and his furtive communications with the Kremlin. WSJ now reports US officials say Musk ordered the Oct 14 StarShield slowdown _after_ speaking with Trump. The circumstances and factual background now make clear that this was a joint Trump/Musk decision, even as both pointed the finger at the other.

TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. From the ProPublica archives:

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney points out that Elon Musk and Trump's crippling of Starshield, to help Russia, has led to deaths and reduced Ukraine's ability to stop indiscriminate attacks on innocent people.

we should demand to know: pardons for what specifically?

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

Tarrawingee tries to make sense of attack on local member Helen Haines

Flying cars are the ultimate example of confusing cool engineering with good transportation. They don't solve congestion, land use, safety, or accessibility. They're about personal escape and spectacle. Musk's vision isn't mobility for everyone, it's exclusive freedom for those who can afford it.

Australia’s underlying electricity demand hit a record, yet September-quarter wholesale prices fell to their lowest in five years as solar and batteries increasingly shifted cheap renewable power into evening peaks, Giles Parkinson writes. #Energy #Renewables #auspol

What most people don't know: when you fill up a petrol car most of the energy never moves it. Petrol car: 13–21% of the crude oil's energy reaches wheels. Electric car on today's UK grid: 43–45%. Electric car on wind+solar: 77–80%. That's why we don't need to replace fossil energy one for one.

US executives quit as Trump turns control over massive Alaska energy project to Putin underlings. The former chief executive of a $25bn US gas export venture says Russian energy giant Novatek was given control of the project by Trump, triggering a mass resignation of company leadership

The corporate forces bankrolling One Nation's ‘anti-establishment’ surge open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...

hang on, so Bleecker Street was sold to a Pierre Omidyar-backed group that also happens to back Tosca Musk's Passionflix... and now "MUSK" is disappearing from theaters?

Just an innocent guy burying evidence in a pink lunch box in his back yard:

Today’s good news

Low floor trams alone can't make the tram network accessible for everyone.

"As of this morning, instances of connectivity loss at speeds of 161 km/h are still being observed. There is currently no confirmation that these restrictions have been lifted," a source in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry told the Kyiv Independent on Oct. 23." kyivindependent.com/analysis-ukr...

I really don't think most people appreciate how much damage air pollution does to our bodies & brains. Even in the last 10 years the science has progressed a ton & everything it has discovered is *grim*.

Massive plumes of highly polluting methane have been detected above Chevron's Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on Barrow Island off the West Australian coast Methane plumes have been picked up by 5 consecutive passes of the Tanager-1 satellite since Nov 2025

1. The Wall Street Journal and CBS News confirmed that Elon Musk was involved in the decision to stall out Starshield, the military version of Starlink, when Ukraine needed it most. www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu...